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Anthropologist/Geek thinking about how you think about AI & robots. Assistant Professor in Digital Religions at UZH. Bvlsingler.com. She/her. 🌈 https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-mono/10.4324/9781003256113/religion-artificial-intelligence-beth-singler

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DOGE is like if Fyre Festival was a government agency.

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Worst. Episode. EVER.

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Musk is so predictably petty.

submitted 2 days ago • 155 comments

It's Friday and you deserve a little treat! Get yourself a cookie from a nearby bakery, or a new book from the library, or stop into a locally owned shoe store for pair of steel-toed boots that you can use to kick Nazis in the nuts. Something fun!

submitted 2 days ago • 14 comments

CFP! Our July Conference at the MEEET-Lab in Zurich - get involved in the conversation about our hopes and fears for AI! Deadline for abstracts 31st March. bvlsingler.com/2025/01/30/c...

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Its cute, but not sure they understood the story of Sisyphus (the little guy follows the pearl up the chain, and of course they both fall back down again)

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Genuinely couldn't believe this figure until I saw the Financial Times confirm it using Meta's own financial reporting data For THIS $100 billion is genuinely the kind of money you could "do the impossible" with. Crack nuclear fusion. HIV vaccine. Universal flu vaccine And they spent it on this

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The new semester starts (students not shown)

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"NPC" as an insult has its roots in 4chan memes and suggests not only that some categories of people aren't really people, but that they are disposable in a moral sense. It is not just an illiberal insult, it is a fascist insult with genocidally violent undertones.

submitted 3 days ago • 20 comments

This is the future we are madly burning money for.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Every ten minutes here is like: - Trump doubles student debt - Musk now has keys to your house and is in your bathroom doing plumbing drugs - Three planes just crashed - Trump signs EO making women illegal - Face-melted Nazi from Indiana Jones now in charge of CIA - Meteor not arriving fast enough

submitted 3 days ago • 108 comments

The fact that this communication is now necessary ... for conferences happening in the US ... shocking.

submitted 3 days ago • 19 comments

Apropos of absolutely nothing, a commemorative Welsh mug on the occasion of the beheading of Louis XVI

submitted 3 days ago • 13 comments

Terry Pratchett had this one nailed in Feet of Clay we don’t do kings here

submitted 3 days ago • 40 comments

New energy source discovered in USA, the rotational force of the founding fathers in their graves...

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This is just to say I have fired the bureaucrats throughout your government Even the ones that were probably keeping planes in the air Forgive me I am not very smart So efficiency Much savings

submitted 4 days ago • 18 comments

I hope America is as lucky as the delta jet - everyone survives but the right wing explodes

submitted 5 days ago • 1064 comments

“Austria as the newest state of Germany? Hitler thinks it would be a boon to his legacy. But it would also be a boon to the Social Democrats, who would gain a lot more voters.”

submitted 5 days ago • 7 comments

Fully Automated AI FASCISM. If you can’t understand how this will be used, and who will use it, you are dumber than Donald Trump’s diaper contents

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

"How do you spell algoyrithem?" 🤫

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"The Nazis had a kernel of truth to in their slogan about how their opponents were not human beings but disposable fake humans" what the fuck is wrong with you

submitted 6 days ago • 115 comments

I spent a lot of time thinking about whether I could justify submitting something to this under my AI research fellowship - I settled for reading it when it came out :D Adding it to my TBR list!

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

Part One of the AI and You podcast I did recently now available: www.podbean.com/ew/pb-678ge-...

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Greek Mythology :D

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

CFP for Religion and AI at this year's #AARSBL25 conference in Boston! papers.aarweb.org/group/15083

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Repost with a pic you’ve saved but haven’t found a use for

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

This is just to say I have inserted into the database that you left unsecured and which you were probably saving for hate crimes Forgive me but you are so incompetent also get fucked

submitted 9 days ago • 3 comments

#academicvalentines

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New from 404 Media: anyone can push updates to the Doge.gov site. Two sources independently found the issue, one made their own decision to deface the site. "THESE 'EXPERTS' LEFT THEIR DATABASE OPEN." www.404media.co/anyone-can-p...

submitted 9 days ago • 39 comments

I watch people

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

I agree with this but I think the SV ideology is becoming weirder still... they're striving to enter a singularity of management and machines, no workers and also no customers whom they hate almost as much as they hate workers

DOGE is like if Fyre Festival was a government agency.

Worst. Episode. EVER.

Musk is so predictably petty.

It's Friday and you deserve a little treat! Get yourself a cookie from a nearby bakery, or a new book from the library, or stop into a locally owned shoe store for pair of steel-toed boots that you can use to kick Nazis in the nuts. Something fun!

CFP! Our July Conference at the MEEET-Lab in Zurich - get involved in the conversation about our hopes and fears for AI! Deadline for abstracts 31st March. bvlsingler.com/2025/01/30/c...

Its cute, but not sure they understood the story of Sisyphus (the little guy follows the pearl up the chain, and of course they both fall back down again)

Genuinely couldn't believe this figure until I saw the Financial Times confirm it using Meta's own financial reporting data For THIS $100 billion is genuinely the kind of money you could "do the impossible" with. Crack nuclear fusion. HIV vaccine. Universal flu vaccine And they spent it on this

The new semester starts (students not shown)

"NPC" as an insult has its roots in 4chan memes and suggests not only that some categories of people aren't really people, but that they are disposable in a moral sense. It is not just an illiberal insult, it is a fascist insult with genocidally violent undertones.

This is the future we are madly burning money for.

Every ten minutes here is like: - Trump doubles student debt - Musk now has keys to your house and is in your bathroom doing plumbing drugs - Three planes just crashed - Trump signs EO making women illegal - Face-melted Nazi from Indiana Jones now in charge of CIA - Meteor not arriving fast enough

The fact that this communication is now necessary ... for conferences happening in the US ... shocking.

Apropos of absolutely nothing, a commemorative Welsh mug on the occasion of the beheading of Louis XVI

Terry Pratchett had this one nailed in Feet of Clay we don’t do kings here

New energy source discovered in USA, the rotational force of the founding fathers in their graves...

This is just to say I have fired the bureaucrats throughout your government Even the ones that were probably keeping planes in the air Forgive me I am not very smart So efficiency Much savings

I hope America is as lucky as the delta jet - everyone survives but the right wing explodes

“Austria as the newest state of Germany? Hitler thinks it would be a boon to his legacy. But it would also be a boon to the Social Democrats, who would gain a lot more voters.”

Fully Automated AI FASCISM. If you can’t understand how this will be used, and who will use it, you are dumber than Donald Trump’s diaper contents

"How do you spell algoyrithem?" 🤫

"The Nazis had a kernel of truth to in their slogan about how their opponents were not human beings but disposable fake humans" what the fuck is wrong with you

I spent a lot of time thinking about whether I could justify submitting something to this under my AI research fellowship - I settled for reading it when it came out :D Adding it to my TBR list!

Part One of the AI and You podcast I did recently now available: www.podbean.com/ew/pb-678ge-...

Greek Mythology :D

CFP for Religion and AI at this year's #AARSBL25 conference in Boston! papers.aarweb.org/group/15083

Repost with a pic you’ve saved but haven’t found a use for

This is just to say I have inserted into the database that you left unsecured and which you were probably saving for hate crimes Forgive me but you are so incompetent also get fucked

#academicvalentines

New from 404 Media: anyone can push updates to the Doge.gov site. Two sources independently found the issue, one made their own decision to deface the site. "THESE 'EXPERTS' LEFT THEIR DATABASE OPEN." www.404media.co/anyone-can-p...

I watch people

I agree with this but I think the SV ideology is becoming weirder still... they're striving to enter a singularity of management and machines, no workers and also no customers whom they hate almost as much as they hate workers

Yes! I was wondering this!

If you see this, post a robot www.instagram.com/reel/DF7mRGJ...

I would love this as a poster!